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George Robert Albert ALLEN
1895 - 1946 (51 years)
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Name George Robert Albert ALLEN Birth 5 Jan 1895 Farewell, Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario 
Gender Male Location 1906 Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada Census Military Nov 1914 Stratford, ON Attestation Papers Military Apr 1915 Europe Went overseas - Aboard SS Grampian; Private with 18th Battalion
Military Feb 1919 Return to Canada - Aboard Grampion; Corporal
Location 1 Jun 1921 Wood Creek Simpson Vilage, Last Mountain, Saskatchewan, Canada Census _UID CB547F7C04604195951EBA9EBE3C62C07B0D Death 18 Mar 1946 Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada Burial Nanaimo Municipal Cemetery, Nanaimo, B. C. Person ID I3135 My Genealogy Last Modified 3 Jan 2022
Father William ALLEN, b. 2 Oct 1855, Farewell, Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Canada West d. 27 Dec 1932, Grandview, Manitoba, Canada (Age 77 years) Mother Marjory (Misey) MCINTOSH, b. 28 Feb 1857, Wellington County, Canada West d. 30 Sep 1942, Grandview, Manitoba Canada (Age 85 years) Marriage 4 Jun 1878 Arthur Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario, Canada Family ID F1055 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Lila SHANNON, b. 4 Jun 1906, R.M. of Mossey River, Manitoba, Canada d. 15 Jul 1990, Nanaimo, British Columbia (Age 84 years) Marriage 26 Dec 1928 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Children + 1. Robert Gordon ALLEN, b. 18 Oct 1929, London, Ontario, Canada d. 15 May 1989, Delta, British Columbia, Canada (Age 59 years)2. Lois Gwendoline ALLEN, b. 25 Aug 1931, Calgary, Alberta, Canada d. Aug 2019, British Columbia, Canada (Age 87 years)3. Shirley Eileen ALLEN, b. 2 Apr 1934, Calgary, Alberta, Canada d. 22 Nov 1997, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Age 63 years)4. Richard Murray ALLEN, b. 1 Apr 1942, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada d. 16 Apr 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada (Age 74 years)Family ID F1062 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Dec 2014
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Photos George Robert Albert Allen
From Ancestry - beverlydurston58 originally shared this on 18 Sep 2010
Birth Record
George Robert Albert Allen
George Robert Albert Allen
Ancestry - beverlydurston58 originally shared this on 18 Sep 2010
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Notes - From Kenora Great War Project: - Robert signed his attestation papers in Stratford, Ontario in early November of 1914, going overseas in April of 1915 aboard the SS Grampian as a Private with the 18th Battalion. He returned to Canada aboard the Grampian in February 1919, rank of Corporal. and spent the best years of his life in schools.
- From Lois: "Dad was the baby and inherited Grandmother's long red curls." "Dad was sent to his maternal Grandparents in Mt Forest when he was 15. That would be c1910." [NOTE: In 1911 Census he is still in Dauphin, Manitoba; 1921 Census he is a lodger in the home of Bert Prizerman in Simpson Village, Wood Creek, Last Mountain, Saskatchewan]
- From Kenora Great War Project: - Robert signed his attestation papers in Stratford, Ontario in early November of 1914, going overseas in April of 1915 aboard the SS Grampian as a Private with the 18th Battalion. He returned to Canada aboard the Grampian in February 1919, rank of Corporal. and spent the best years of his life in schools.